Macbeth starts out courageous, and then as he desires more and more power, he becomes immoral and evil, and then he finally has a downfall. Similarly, between the years of 1919 and 1945, Adolf Hitler, a Nazi leader, also had a downfall after the attempt to gain great power over Germany. ... Hitler promises to rebuild Germany into a mighty empire that would last a thousand years. ... Even though they reach power through different traits, both Hitler and Macbeth attempt to gain power, become powerful, and then have a downfall. ... After the downfall of his power though, Hitler is in rage. ...

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He believed that cross breeding led to blood mixing and would be the downfall of mankind. ... He said the Aryan race needed to rid itself of it problems (the Jews) and expand its empire. ... Hitler knew he would have to fight in order to expand his rule and empire. ...

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Parades, marches, displays of pageantry, and military bands were common sites throughout cities in Germany long before the Prussian Empire. ... In 1914, Germany provoked a World War that plunged the country into chaos rather than build a strong empire that dominated Europe (Beck, et. al, 617). ... The inflation of the early 1920s brought the downfall of the middle and upper classes of Germany (Riedlsperger, Internet). ...

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Germany had to pay reparations for all the damage of the war, leading them to a huge economic downfall. ... Fortunately, the Allied powers, who were unprepared for the attack, had pushed the Germans back east, and were then focused on moving toward the center of Hitler's empire, Berlin. ...

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The setting was perfect because the people of Germany were itching for any leader that would tell them just what they wanted to hear. World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelba...

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World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. Immediately after the war, many people thought the war had made a safe environment f...

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